I’ve been making baby stuff for years now, as you will know if you’ve been reading my blog for a while. Rarely do I get to see the things I make on the intended recipient. Indeed, I have no way of knowing if they fit or are useful, even. But now I have a model for any knit/crochet objects I make in the future.
She’s called Chandra and was born on November 10th, as most of my Internet friends know by now, via Facebook or Ravelry. She’s wearing Pebble, which I made a couple of months ago.
Pattern: Pebble (and on Ravelry). Easy, quick and satisfying. I used some of the Russian cotton I still have and ended up with this size, which I could call newborn, I suppose. (My project page here.)
Yarn: Kamtex Khlopok (khlopok meaning cotton) from St. Petersburg. I got 6 balls of it with a lot of yardage and still have odd amounts left. Other projects from it include my Chakra purse, a Fat Bottom Bag, a cabled baby bib, another bib I find I didn’t blog about that I used the crochet trinity stitch for and improvised, and yet another baby bib that I made up from a pattern I saw somewhere (again unblogged). This yarn is a bit splitty, but looks fine when worked up and the yardage is enormous. Pebble’s been washed a couple of times and has worn well in the handwash-with-hot-water-and-Dettol plus dryer cycle.
Needles: 3.5mm (I use circulars whenever possible, my straights are mostly decorative now, I’m afraid.)
Time: Overnight.
Size: My newborn (who is on the petite side).
Extra: I learnt garter Kitchener to graft the one shoulder seam and was quite happy with the outcome. Not that I remember how to do it now, but it’s not scary any more.
I made it in blue, because well, the cotton yarn I had was blue, also, a teeny weeny bit of superstition in me, I suppose, that if I made it in the western boy tradition, I’d not jinx my chances of having a girl! It seems to have worked anyway.
I leave you with a picture of the unmodelled Pebble so you know how it looks. There’s another photo of Chandra in it on my Ravelry page or my Flickr stream.
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December 2, 2009 at 2:52 pm
Sosha
Oh! Wow! Congratulations!!! She absolutely darling! Really, really happy for you – all that waiting and hoping has finally turned out for the best! I subscribed to your blog feed recently – the reason for being so fast off the comment block here… Take care and all the very best once again!
December 2, 2009 at 5:23 pm
topperarnold
She is just so precious! She will be a very well dressed baby.
December 2, 2009 at 7:57 pm
rima aranha
Hi again, Chandra! You look so great in your Pebble!
December 4, 2009 at 5:34 pm
mrsfife
🙂
December 2, 2009 at 10:17 pm
Emilee
Aww, she’s beautiful.
December 3, 2009 at 8:19 am
Jaya
How cute! She looks so cuddly and content in her Pebble.
December 3, 2009 at 11:37 am
Preeti
Congratulations again, Chandra is most gorgeous and I absolutely love her name!
December 3, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Amrita
Chandra looks so cute! She seems all wrapped up and warm in her Pebble. Congrats once again 🙂
December 4, 2009 at 6:45 pm
mrsfife
Thank you!
Swapna
December 4, 2009 at 11:16 am
Jyotsna
Adorable! Congratulations and enjoy these wonderful years.
December 8, 2009 at 12:41 pm
Joyce
Congratulations! She is lovely!
December 8, 2009 at 9:51 pm
gayatri
congrats and good to see you have model as well as she has a very creative mother and she is so cute!!!!!!!!!!!!.
Gayatri
December 10, 2009 at 9:05 pm
Smellyann
Congratulations again, she’s a beauty and so is the Pebble!
December 19, 2009 at 11:56 pm
norinoricum
Adorable!!!! (Both Chandra and Pebble.) I wish I were there so that I could hold your lovely baby! (I *love* holding babies!!!)
December 29, 2009 at 11:06 am
Nima
congratulations…she is so cute an pretty in the pebble
December 31, 2009 at 4:55 am
Vicki
Beautiful !! She is perfect!
Vicki